Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market town as well as civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, raising to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural Area to develop the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Structure work at the old Cattle Market as well as various other sites has revealed proof of settlement on capital because the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman vacation home have actually been located on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village days from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the town became part of the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Consequently, the village gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I provided an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and also on now became a "town" by typical meaning. The two earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion club, were built throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster as well as your house of York, which resulted in the death of King Richard III. Following the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester throughout 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège travelled through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently honored with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.
